Heathrow
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Taken before the rubbish nine hour flight to Seattle in economy class. I really hate airports.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Guess the card
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Here's something. No time to blog. Words words words.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Pancakes!
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Still had the ingredients for pancakes left over from Tuesday. So I had pancakes for dinner today. Wicked.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Moo Badge
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Guess how much fun I had today. This picture of the cow on the front of my bag proves it.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Real Chicken!
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Spent most of my lunch break in a queue in KFC. I say 'in a queue' because I cannot spell 'queuing'. If I did it just now, it was an accident.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Frogsworth the Frog
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Almost stood on a frog on the way home from work today. Here he is in all his glory. Tonight he will be eaten by a fox in my garden.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
My shoes
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Counting down the days until payday now. I hate this part of the month. My friend took a picture of his shoes today, so I thought I'd do the same except a million times more artistic and shit. Look at that duotone, that's arty. You could hang this in a fucking gallery.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Leftovers
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Guy showed me a wicked Chinese restaurant which had chicken chow mein. I ate it but I left all this. Afterwards we made pancakes.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Everybody really likes China
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Chinese New Year at Trafalgar Square.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Bowling Pin
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
My friends gave me this bowling pin as a gift the very first time I met them. I reckon it brings me good luck. I'll never get rid of it.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Barbican
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Ten minutes of the day left, fifteen minutes until I could get off the train, and one photo of the chair in front of me to satisfy my blog.
A friend said I should just change the timestamp on a photo if I ever forget to take a picture, but I don't think I could do that. If I miss a photo then I'll simply have to kill myself. I don't post to this blog for the one or two people who sometimes look at it, I do it to keep myself taking pictures and to force myself to bring my camera with me wherever I go.
And if that means sometimes I take pictures of empty seats on the tube, so be it.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
See-see TV
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
National Science Museum told me that after a typical day in London you end up on 300 hours of CCTV footage. I know that there's at least a half hour of me picking my nose.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Plant pot fall down
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
I was once given some seeds from Skywalker Ranch, and I planted them in this very pot. Now that it's fallen over three times, the youngling plants have been destroyed.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Kevin and Clare
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
I gave my CF card to our art editor on Tueday, so that he could get some images off it, but I forgot to get it back. So instead of breaking my photoblog, which is quickly approaching the one month mark (woo!), I took out my crappy cameraphone instead, and took this shot of Clare and Kevin at the pub. They are work people.
Tonight was also the night when we celebrated three birthdays, one of which was mine, that's why I felt crap all today.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Mario and Yoshi carts
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Today is my birthday. Seeing as I've celebrated all weekend, and will be celebrating again tomorrow, I decided to take it easy and play with my official Mario Kart DS Super Race Set instead.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Blues Bar
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
This was taken at 23 minutes past midnight so it bloody well counts as a Sunday photo. Anyway, Saturday night was the best night I've had since the last best night I had. We went to this absolutely packed blues bar with excellent live music.
I had to move forward through a crowd to get this close to the guitarist, but people actually stood aside when they saw my camera. This also kind of happened at a drum n bass night I went to, where four people asked me if I was the official photographer.
Even if you hate photography, I'd recommend buying an SLR camera - it makes you important in the eyes of the slightly drunk.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Space Invaders
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Because Tim came up for the weekend, and because we're both geeks, we decided to go to the National Science Museum for the Game On exhibition. It was my second time; I recommend it.
This is Space Invaders, one of the old arcade cabinets (probably not a first generation). It had a wicked space landscape background, with the game reflected on a screen to make that 'hovering in mid-air' look. They use that technology in the HUDs of most military jets these days, but not so much in arcade cabinets.
*ends rambling*
Friday, February 9, 2007
Bestest buddies
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Woop! Friday night was wicked, and this is a snapshot in time preserving that evening for eternity in black and white. Futuristic aliens will know of the fun we had.
This was the beginning of my birthday weekend, and we went to a few pubs before going back to mine for some Guitar Hero and Wii Tennis. Everybody left or went to sleep long before 5am, so it wasn't as hardcore as I would've liked. Little did I know that the next night would be proper hardcore.
To the max.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Snowy Clothes Peg
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Argh, it's so bloody hard to take good shots of snow. Your eyes think "wow, snow!", but your camera thinKs "OH GOD THAT'S BORING I HATE BEING YOUR CAMERA". The levels are always messed up too, making the whole image look dull - nothing photoshop can't sort out though, and tweaking the contrast instantly makes a snow picture look arty whether you want it to or not.
I do like this clothes peg though, it's not only got snow on top, it's got snow all round itself. Don't ask me how it did it, probably centripetal frost physics.
I want to get a good action shot in the snow, meaning I want somebody chucking a snowball. There were some kids throwing snowballs this morning, but if you walk up to kids and start taking shots you get beaten up and arrested.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
A chair, obviously
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
I was sick all day today, and after waking up really late taking a picture was the last thing on my mind. So I took this one at a few minutes to midnight. It's the closest I've come to breaking my blog (as if anybody besides me cares), hence it being not so good.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Hello mirror
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
I think I keep putting things into a metallic blue duotone for the same reason people in 'the olden days' started using sepia - it looks so much nicer than regular black and white.
Did you know sepia is named after the cuttlefish they got the pigment from? I don't know why somebody rubbed a cuttlefish against some undeveloped film, but they did, and they got sepia.
That's today's fact.
Monday, February 5, 2007
London Eye
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Decided to take some long exposure shots of the Eye from the south bank tonight. The trees were in the way no matter where I stood, stupid things.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Guy
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
After literally three minutes thinking about it, I've decided that any photos taken after midnight count as being taken the next day. This shot of my mate Guy was taken at ten past twelve, so it counts as Sunday's picture.
It also helps that I didn't really take anything else today.
Also he's wicked, look at him go.
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Worthing Pier
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
I had my first trip to Worthing with my new camera this weekend. I really like this shot too - hooray for waves and long exposures. I couldn't decide whether to correct the tilt in photoshop so it was horizontal, but I ended up leaving it as it was.
Friday, February 2, 2007
London Eye, long exposure
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
"Hold on, wait, is it moving? Yes... wait... oh yes it is." - Tourists.
A thirty second exposure proves it.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Cool art by Euston Tower
Originally uploaded by escaped.monkey.
Hooray for February. This is a piece of pop art painted across four-storeys of a building just across from Euston Tower. The ground here is criss-crossed with lines of light too.
I found it by walking randomly around London tonight. I really needed the toilet so I went into a Starbucks and bought a chocolate muffin out of guilt. Then I started taking photographs of this thing.
And that's what I did today.
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